Sentences with phrase «of nuclear decommissioning»

Our lawyers were closely involved with the reorganization of the sector following the enactment of the Energy Act in 2004 and the establishment of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) in 2005.

International Nuclear Services Limited (INS) is a wholly - owned subsidiary of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).

Not exact matches

In Southern California, a company called Advanced Microgrid Solutions is spearheading a project that involves replacing the energy that was once provided by a large (now decommissioned) nuclear power plant with a series of solar arrays and batteries that AMS can turn on and off based on when the prices for conventional energy are low and when there's the most demand.

The endlessly repeated arguments against nuclear power, namely the disposal of nuclear waste, leukemia clusters around nuclear power stations, the cost of decommissioning and the shortage of uranium have all been conclusively refuted or put into proper proportion [1].

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority — Lorraine Baldry to become Chair of Sellafield Ltd on 1st May.

New research by the party suggests that on top of the up to # 90 billion cost of decommissioning existing plants, taxpayers will have to fork out billions in direct and indirect subsidies to the nuclear industry to persuade them to build new ones.

PoliticsHome speaks to former Labour MP Jamie Reed about his new role as Head of Development & Community Relations at Sellafield Ltd, the nuclear fuel reprocessing and decommissioning site in Cumbria.

He said: «We need to ask ourselves, «Can the public sector deliver Hinkley Point C, a third runway, HS2, a Northern Powerhouse, nuclear decommissioning, Trident renewal and restoration and renewal of the Palace of Westminster all at the same time?»

Photos obtained from a whistleblower and published in a Vermont newspaper have renewed calls for stricter oversight of Entergy and its management of the fund dedicated to decommissioning the closed Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor.

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has already confirmed it will make its sites available for developers wanting to build a new generation of nuclear power stNuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has already confirmed it will make its sites available for developers wanting to build a new generation of nuclear power stnuclear power stations.

Officials from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave an overview of the decommissioning process this week and what Vermonters can expect now that the Vermont Yankee reactor has shut down.

The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission says it has no objections to the decommissioning plans developed by the owners of the closed Vermont Yankee nuclearNuclear Regulatory Commission says it has no objections to the decommissioning plans developed by the owners of the closed Vermont Yankee nuclearnuclear plant.

Twenty minutes north of Buchanan, folks are packing the room at the Desmon - Fish Library in Garrison, anxious to learn more about the right choice to decommission the Indian Point nuclear power plant.

Indian Point will shut down by 2021, and according to the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, decommissioning must be completed within 60 years of the plant ceasing operations.

It has pilloried the soaring costs of HS2, it has excoriated a five - year extension to the Sellafield nuclear decommissioning contract worth # 5bn given to a private consortium which had been witheringly criticised for spending money «like confetti», and much else.

While nuclear reactors do not emit carbon dioxide at the point of power generation, the nuclear fuel chain is responsible for carbon emissions during mining, milling, enriching, construction, transportation, and decommissioning.

Entergy is preparing to decommission three of its so - called «merchant» nuclear reactors, each of which sells power in unregulated wholesale markets in the Northeast.

Chris Huhne, at Energy and Climate Change, has started to lobby for special treatment by announcing the discovery of a # 4bn black hole in his budget for the cost of decommissioning nuclear power stations.

October 2016 will mark the 60th anniversary of the opening of the world's first civil nuclear energy power plant, which was located in northwest England at Calder Hall and decommissioned in 2003.

A huge advantage of carrying out nuclear - related research at Manchester is the university's proximity to Calder Hall and Sellafield — a nuclear fuel reprocessing and decommissioning site, and home to the United Kingdom's National Nuclear Laboratory Central Labonuclear - related research at Manchester is the university's proximity to Calder Hall and Sellafield — a nuclear fuel reprocessing and decommissioning site, and home to the United Kingdom's National Nuclear Laboratory Central Labonuclear fuel reprocessing and decommissioning site, and home to the United Kingdom's National Nuclear Laboratory Central LaboNuclear Laboratory Central Laboratory.

To try to confirm the location and condition of the melted fuel, the International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning, set up by TEPCO and other entities, has been probing the reactors» innards with muons.

The decommissioning of nuclear power plants will become a huge global business in the 21st century

About 40 percent of this sum will cover decommissioning the crippled nuclear reactors.

«The Germans couldn't quite figure out what to do with it,» Clements said.German officials have been embroiled in a fight over who will pay for clean - up of nuclear waste from nine remaining decommissioned nuclear plants.

«Every robot needed differs according to its purpose and the damage,» says Tomohisa Ito, a spokesperson for the International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning in Tokyo, a consortium of nuclear plant companies that aims to develop new technologies for cleaning up the FukushimaNuclear Decommissioning in Tokyo, a consortium of nuclear plant companies that aims to develop new technologies for cleaning up the Fukushimanuclear plant companies that aims to develop new technologies for cleaning up the Fukushima plant.

Lake Barrett — director of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant during its decommissioning after a partial meltdown at the Middletown, Pa., facility in 1979 — says TEPCO will use robots to remotely dig out the melted fuel and store it in canisters on - site before shipping to its final disposal spot.

(One of the reactors, Barsebäck 1, has been shut down as part of Sweden?s phaseout of nuclear power, but decommissioning of the remaining 12 has stalled because no cost - effective substitutes have been found.)

«The energy payback time of a nuclear power plant is at present about 11 years compared with natural gas at half a year,» Storm van Leeuwen argues, when the full cost of decommissioning a nuclear power plant at the end of its useful life is included.

Of that, $ 130 million is intended to offset the cost of decommissioning ballistic missiles, nuclear submarines and bomberOf that, $ 130 million is intended to offset the cost of decommissioning ballistic missiles, nuclear submarines and bomberof decommissioning ballistic missiles, nuclear submarines and bombers.

Updates to the map will also reflect the construction and decommission of nuclear reactors as appropriate.

For the first time in decades a new uranium rod fabrication plant is operating in New Mexico and it may soon be joined by as many as three others in the U.S.. That's because 2013 will see the expiration of an agreement with Russia that allows the U.S. to blend down the highly enriched uranium from decommissioned Russian nuclear warheads into the lower level enriched fuel used in U.S. nuclear reactors — a program known as «Megatons to Megawatts» that currently provides as much as 50 percent of U.S. nuclear fuel.

If Topfer's draft becomes law, the companies that run Germany's 21 nuclear power plants would have to shoulder the costs of disposing of waste, decommissioning, and research and development.

At Hanford [a decommissioned nuclear production facility in Washington State] they did something called dose reconstruction, where they looked at releases of radiation and the wind patterns and how the wind might have traveled.

The second reason is that it costs a minimum of # 2 billion ($ 3.14 billion) to decommission a nuclear reactor, according to the European Union, and there are two reactors at each of these EDF stations.

If they closed, that huge decommissioning liability would have to be shown on the nuclear generator's balance sheet — figures that would soon overtake the net worth of the company, thus making it technically bankrupt.

This includes working with and developing alternate fuels like recycled uranium, mixed oxide and thorium, as well as Tier 1 contracts for the management and decommissioning of nuclear sites in the United States and Canada.

The Chalk River site is the home of the remaining operating nuclear reactor, nuclear operations to support medical isotope production, a diverse science and technology group, and an organization focused on environmental remediation and decommissioning.

«PRISM has the potential to offer an attractive solution to the disposition of civil plutonium and we look forward to working with GEH as they progress with their proposals to deploy PRISM in the U.K.» The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has contracted GEH to carry out feasibility work in a number of key areas including the proposed commercial structure, disposability of the fuel, risk transfer model, costs and licensability of GEH's PRISM offering

Application for approval of the planned schedule for the decommissioning of Monju has been submitted to the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA).

APS President Laura Greene presented a plaque marking the historical designation of the now decommissioned physics research facility to kick off the Nuclear Structure 2016 conference and Neutrinos in Nuclear Physics workshop being held this week in Knoxville.

Judge Thomas S. Moore of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) found that HRI's Restoration Action Plan (RAP)- a blueprint for calculating the amount of money that will be needed to restore contaminated groundwater, decommission surface facilities and reclaim disturbed lands at the end of mining - underestimated well - plugging, reclamation equipment and labor costs for independent contractors that would take over clean - up should HRI go bankrupt.

Thus, WIPP's mission has been to demonstrate whether the federal government and its contractors, at the cost of unknown billions of dollars can: (1) safely operate WIPP to meet the «start clean, stay clean» standard; (2) safely transport plutonium - contaminated waste through more than 20 states without serious accidents or release of radioactive or hazardous contaminants; (3) meet commitments to clean up transuranic waste at about 20 DOE nuclear weapons sites; and (4) safely close, decontaminate, and decommission the WIPP site, beginning in 2030 or sooner.

The UK Government, through the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), is considering the use of PRISM to reduce its stockpile of 112 tons of plutonium stored in Cumbria.

Earlier this year, the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) threw a competition that appeared to be stacked in favour of Areva's MOX project wide open, with a report that declared that all three projects presented «credible reuse options» for the country's plutonium stockpile.

- Full touchscreen support on Nintendo Switch - An incredible cast, including Adam Brown (The Hobbit), Sarah Greene (Penny Dreadful) and Grahame Fox (Game Of Thrones)- Totally live action - No CGI, no motion capture, shot on location in a genuine decommissioned nuclear bunker - A complex, twisting plot written by award - winning screenwriters behind Broken Sword, The Witcher and SOMA - Hidden secrets, documents and recordings to explore the mystery further - Neo-retro soundtrack by composer Dom Shovelton

On the other side of the former Cold War border in a similar four - screen format, Gamma (1999) shows Greenham Common, a decommissioned U.S. military base in Berkshire that housed nuclear cruise missiles.

With nuclear, upfront costs are high, but the end costs of decommissioning and of hot fuel rod treatment are even higher.

I'm convinced that the United States will be better off keeping existing nuclear power stations running, where their management can be demonstrated to be reliable, rather than initiating a decades - long decommissioning process that would not resolve community concerns about spent fuel and many other sources of risk.

I've read reports in the past about the huge cost to both the UK and US about the cost of decommissioning plants let alone the nuclear waste or security.

However, it has been recently publicised that the UK nuclear industry is better equipped to manage the decline and decommissioning of existing nuclear plants, rather than set up new nuclear power stations.